How to play

A pixel meadow you share with other people. This page is everything the game does today, in the order you will meet it — and it is honest about the parts that are not finished.

Your first ten minutes

If you read nothing else, read this. It is the whole loop, in the order that works.

1. Open the game and connect a wallet. You will be asked to sign one sentence. It costs nothing. If you would rather look around first, choose Just look around — but everything from step four on needs a wallet.
2. Pick a room. A room is one copy of the same meadow. Your keeper and everything you own follow you to any of them.
3. Settle your keeper, your name, and your first critter. The keeper and the name are permanent once you walk in, so spend the extra ten seconds on them.
4. You arrive at the meeting stone. Walk with WASD or the arrow keys. Your critter follows a step behind.
5. Walk to the thicket on the west side, the pond in the north-east, or the quarry in the south-east. A small marker floats over each working spot when you are near.
6. Stand next to a spot and press space. Your critter walks up and starts. The prompt over your head says who is going and what they will do.
7. Wait, or don't. The critter works on its own for a few minutes. You can walk anywhere in the meadow, talk, or send another critter somewhere else. Leaving the meadow or reloading the page brings it back empty-handed.
8. Expect junk. Most jobs bring back a boot, a twig, some gravel. Junk sells for nothing, but sell it anyway — it is the only way it leaves your bag.
9. Sell to the trader. He stands in front of the left hut on the north side, with [NPC] TRADER over his head. Press E. He pays gold, up to a limit each day.
10. Buy a treat while you are there, feed it to a critter, and send it out again. A fed critter brings back half as much junk. That is the whole game as it stands: send, wait, sell, repeat.

Getting in

Watching, without a wallet

Choose Just look around at the door and you get the meadow with everybody moving around in it. The arrow keys move the camera. You cannot send anything, buy or sell, leave the meadow, or talk, and nobody can see you.

Connecting

Press the connect button, choose an account in your wallet, and sign the sentence it shows you. It says in plain words that it costs nothing. You are in, with a keeper, chat, and the run of the meadow and your own den.

Use an ordinary browser wallet that holds its own key. Smart-contract wallets cannot sign the way this door needs and are turned away with a generic error. On a phone, open the game inside your wallet's own browser.

Closing the tab signs you out; opening it again means signing once more. Your keeper, your critters, your gold and your bag are kept.

Your keeper

A keeper is five pieces — skin, eyes, outfit, hair and headgear — and a name of three to eight characters (letters, numbers, underscores). Names are first come, first served; there is no list of what is taken, you find out by trying. Both are permanent. There is no rename and no changing your face later.

One name an hour is the limit per connection, so a typo costs you an hour. The room list comes before the fitting room on purpose: you name yourself standing in a meadow that is already running.

Your critters

Every critter is one of six species, and every species is good at one job. Up to 3 follow you at a time and can work at once; any beyond that rest in your den and still leave keepsakes there. One keeper holds at most 6 of them.

There are two ways to get one. Catch a wild one in the meadow with treats, or hatch an egg once the hatchery opens. A hatched critter is on chain and can be sold with its egg; a tamed one is yours and stays in the den.

A critter sent to the job it is good at brings back half as much junk. A critter sent anywhere else still works; it just finds more boots. Feeding a critter a treat halves the junk again for its next job only.

Controls

Watch the prompt over your head, not the buttons. When you are close enough to do something the game writes it out — SPACE Send Mossit to forage, E Talk to the trader. No prompt means you are too far away.

On a phone or a tablet a thumb pad appears at the bottom left and two buttons at the bottom right, so the meadow plays without a keyboard. The bar along the bottom still opens your bag, the map and the bank.

Sending a critter to work

There are twelve spots: four bushes on the rim of the thicket, four places on the pond's bank, four rocks in the quarry. Each takes three critters at once, from anyone. A count over the marker shows how full it is.

1. Walk up to a spot. The marker over it turns yellow and the tile is outlined.
2. Press space. The first critter following you goes. Press 1, 2 or 3 to choose a different one.
3. The critter walks to the spot and a bar under it fills up. The panel on the right shows the time left.
4. Walk away, talk, send the others. Everything within the meadow is allowed.
5. When the bar is full the critter comes back to you and what it found goes into your bag.

Foraging takes about 2 minutes, fishing about 3 minutes, digging about 4 minutes. Recall from the panel on the right brings a critter back early with nothing. Going through the den gate, or reloading the page, does the same to every critter you have out.

Your bag holds 24 things. A critter cannot be sent out when it is full, and a critter that comes back to a full bag drops what it found. Sell before it gets there.

Catching a wild critter

Critters wander the meadow on their own. They are not scenery: walk up to one holding a treat and it will stay for it.

1. Buy treats from the trader. They cost 0.50 gold each.
2. Walk right up to a wild critter. The prompt reads SPACE Offer a treat, and a marker appears over its head.
3. Press space. It takes the treat and a bar under it fills a little. Three or four treats usually does it.
4. When the bar fills, it comes home with you and joins your critters.

Trust is on the critter, not on you. If somebody else has been feeding the same one, you are both filling the same bar, and it goes home with whoever hands over the treat that fills it. Nothing is refunded to the other person, so it is worth saying something in chat first.

One keeper holds at most 6 critters, hatched and tamed together, because the nests pay per critter per day. When you are full, the game says so rather than taking the treat.

A caught critter is not an egg. It works, it fills a nest, and it stays in your den; it is not on chain and cannot be sold.

Your den

Through the west gate is a place nobody else can walk into: a house that is not open yet, a small pond, and a row of nests. Every critter you keep leaves one keepsake in its nest a day. Press E at the notice board beside the house to collect the whole row at once.

A nest fills and then stops. Come back the next day and it is full again; leave it a week and it is still just full. Once a day is worth as much as ten times a day.

The trader

One shop, one man, in front of the left hut on the north side. He buys what your critters bring back and what your nests leave; he sells treats.

He takes junk for nothing — and that is the point: it leaves your bag. He buys 100.00 gold worth a day from each keeper and then says so. He never turns you away: he pays for what he can and leaves the rest on your shelf. Nothing you hold goes off.

A treat costs 0.50 gold. Feed it to a critter from the panel on the right and its next job brings back half as much junk. It is the only thing gold buys today.

What everything is worth

Every price here is the one the trader pays. The words in the middle column are the order, not the odds — how often each turns up is not written down anywhere.

The thicket — foraging

The pond — fishing

The quarry — digging

The nests — keepsakes, once a day

Eggs and the hatchery

When the collection exists there will be 1111 eggs on Robinhood Chain. One egg is what gets you through the door — one is enough, and one is all it asks about. There is no tier and no rank.

An egg becomes a critter at the hatchery, for a fee in $CRITTR. Which of the six it becomes is decided on chain when it hatches, not before. Every hatched egg in your wallet is one critter in the game, so holding three eggs means three critters working at once — that is the one thing holding more changes, and deliberately nothing else. Your gold, your bag and your den belong to the wallet, not to any egg.

Earning $CRITTR

Gold itself never leaves the game. What leaves is $CRITTR, out of a contract the token fills on its own: every trade through a pool pays a 3% fee straight into it. Press B anywhere in the meadow to open the bank.

Two steps, and the game is clear about which is which.

1. Cash gold out. Spends the gold and adds the matching amount to what the contract owes you. The rate is written on the panel. Nothing is signed and nothing leaves your wallet at this step.
2. Claim to your wallet. The game signs a short note saying what you have earned in total, and your wallet sends that note to the contract, which pays the difference. You pay the gas; the game never sends a transaction for you and never holds your key.

The note carries a running total rather than one payment, so sending an old one again pays nothing and there is nothing to keep in step. Claim whenever you like — there is no queue, no window to be awake for, and nobody to walk up to.

The rate can change, and the panel always shows the one in force. What you have already cashed out is not affected when it does.

The game will not promise what the contract cannot pay. Before it takes your gold it checks the contract balance against everything already owed to everybody. If your gold is worth more than is left, the cash-out is refused and the panel says how much room there is. You keep the gold. It is better to be told now than to hold a claim nobody can honour.

Nothing about this happens in a private message. Nobody running this will ever ask for your seed phrase, ask you to send tokens anywhere first, or quote you a rate outside the game.

Talking to people

Press enter, type, and press enter again to send. What you say also appears over your keeper's head. Town is the copy of the meadow you are standing in; World is everybody on the server. Lines are short on purpose. esc leaves the box without sending.

When something goes wrong

No wallet found in this browser.

Install a browser wallet, or on a phone open the game inside your wallet's own browser.

Your wallet declined. Nothing was signed and nothing has changed.

You pressed reject, or the wallet timed out. No harm done. Try again.

Could not sign in.

By far the most common cause is a smart-contract wallet. Try an ordinary browser wallet instead.

Your sign-in has expired. Connect your wallet again.

You were signed in long enough for it to lapse. Connect again; nothing is lost.

The game server is not answering right now.

The meadow still loads, but nobody else is in it and nothing you do is recorded. Wait, and come back.

world full

That copy of the meadow holds as many people as it can. Pick another room.

No room at this spot.

Three critters are already there. Try the next spot along — there are four in each place.

Your bag is full.

Walk to the trader, press E, and sell. Junk clears for nothing.

You've sold me all I can take today.

Keep what is left — it does not go off — and come back tomorrow.

My critter came back with nothing.

You went through a gate, reloaded, or pressed Recall. Send it again.

The payout contract can only cover N more.

Everything already promised, plus what your gold is worth, would pass what the contract holds. Your gold is kept. Cash out less, or come back once it is topped up.

You already keep six critters.

That is the ceiling for one den. A wild critter will not take your treat until you have room.

You signed in from somewhere else.

The same keeper opened the game in another tab. The newer one wins.